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Advancing
Cardiac Care at Ascension Columbia St.
Mary's

Columbia
St. Mary’s-Milwaukee has been
selected to serve as the Tertiary Care
Center for Ascension Wisconsin.
This will include the development
of centers of excellence in key tertiary
service lines including
cardiovascular.

With your help, we will advance
compassionate, personalized cardiac care
at Ascension Columbia St.
Mary's.

Click here to learn
more about our Be of Good Heart
Community Wellness Program.

Transcatheter
Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
is a minimally invasive, non-surgical
procedure to replace the aortic valve.
The new valve is delivered through an
artery in the leg, eliminating
the need for open heart surgery.

Did
you know?

By age 65, 1 in 4 people
will have evidence of
aortic valve thickening,
reducing blood flow to
the heart.

By age 80, 1 in 10
people will have such
severe, progressed
thickening that they
will require a valve
replacement.

These people are our parents,
grandparents, friends and neighbors.

TAVR
will provide hope to our patients who
are too sick or frail to tolerate the
invasive, stressful impact of open heart
surgery. TAVR results in better outcomes
and quicker recovery. Instead of a week
or more in the hospital, patients often
go home in just one or two days.

Because
of you, TAVR will provide hope for our
most frail and vulnerable patients.

"Be of Good Heart" Community Wellness
Program

A large percentage of people are unaware
that they have diabetes and hypertension
- chronic diseases that are primary
causes of heart disease and death. Among
African-Americans, more than 40% of
diabetes cases and 25% of hypertension
cases are undiagnosed.

The "Be of Good Heart" Community
Outreach Program will reduce this health
disparity for impoverished
African-Americans living in central
Milwaukee by:

Identifying those who
have, or are most at
risk for, diabetes and
hypertension